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A standoff over who’s responsible for kids’ online safety continues.
Historically speaking, we denizens of the so-called “Information Age” are privy to more media, data, stimulation, news, facts, and fictions than any of our predecessors. Given the meteoric rise to ...
We are surrounded by information, and yet, 43 per cent of Canadians feel it's harder to decipher the truth from fiction.
North Dakota passed laws requiring age verification for pornographic websites and penalizing the nonconsensual creation and distribution of deepfakes. The laws, effective August 1st, aim to protect ...
A new survey conducted in the UK found that nearly half of young people wished they lived in a world without the internet.
In an age of misinformation, it’s more important than ever to be vigilant and to question the information that’s presented to ...
What happens in the minds of people who use the internet addictively? Prof. Dr. Matthias Brand from the University of ...
There’s a name for this theory: the dead internet theory. It suggests that much of the internet is an ecosystem dominated by ...
"Relying on kids to self-report their age is like putting a lock on a door but hanging the key next to it," writes Richard ...
Among Adult Check's customers were apparently some savvy kids who snuck through the cracks in the system. In various threads ...
That's not all as well-over half of young people also said they felt worse about themselves after spending time on the ...
After watching the series, many questions came to my mind. I’m not married yet, but I already wonder—how will I raise and guide my future child in this digital or “visual” era or information age? It’s ...